These New Characters Could Make It Into Skullgirls, Too

In just a day, the fundraiser for Skullgirls has acquired over $90,000 of its $150,000 goal that will help the developer, Lab Zero, add a new character to the fighting game. Since that goal is in sight, Lab Zero have also begun to reveal other characters that they could add to Skullgirls, should the contribution goals for those be met as well. Here’s what they’ve announced so far:

$375,000: Big Band ($400,000 for Big Band stage and Story Mode)

$600,000: One of the below, by fan vote ($625,000 for stage and Story Mode)

Lab Zero actually have even more characters designed for the game. For every $20,000 they raise, they’ll reveal a new one, making them eligible for a vote. These characters were initially intended to be spread across three games, but Lab Zero have begun to reveal some of them early to spur interest.

They’re gonna need like 7.5 millions to add these characters (that’s 250K per character BTW). Do they really expect people to donate that much? They’d be better working on other games, and take the profits from those to fund Skullgirls.

Sebastian Lothian

I don’t think they expect people to donate that much. They’re saying that the second character added will be one of the characters revealed and the donations would allow more characters to be eligible for that second slot (from my understanding.)

James Reilly

No, thats what the roster is most likely gonna be in the spam of this game and sequels if all is right in the world.

No I don’t expect them to think Millions will be raised

However, Clearing Squigly and the additional Stretch Goals seems very doable based on how great the pace has been and not even half a day has passed yet since it started

Mr. X

It’s not for ALL those characters, those are character open to voting if they reach enough for a 3rd character.

MrJechgo

They plan to release all 30 characters as DLC actually; the order of which one to release is up to voting.

Mr. X

Some of those characters were planned to be released in Skullgirls 2 and Skullgirls 3. They’re showing some off early and letting fans vote for any 1 of those on the list.

Makr0ss

At some point, the studio expect that either: their publisher get his lawsuit settled and afford the next characters (or a sequel), or get the attention of another company that’s willing to invest on the studio and the Skullgirls franchise
The 3 characters that covers the indiegogo crowdfunding, should give them enough time to see how the situation developes, while working on the game properly.

We love to throw our wallets, safes and piggy banks to the direction of Game Development. Especially when said develpoment will create something EPIC! AWESOME! Whatever other mainstream descriptors are used nowadays!

ShawnOtakuSomething

I was thinking about making a fighting game, Yeah NVM lol

Barrylocke89

Aww, don’t say that. I’m sure attempting to make a fighting game would teach you a lot about game logic, programming, development, etc. and you could probably make the basis of one on a more… manageable budget.

Is it something that you’d be able to sell to people and have featured in bigtime online blogs? Probably not, unless you showed a solid concept and managed to get investors or kickstart people to show interest in you, allowing for you to get access to better resources.

But if nothing else you might have something to put onto a portfolio, and that could always pay off in the future.

ShawnOtakuSomething

I made Platformers and Rpgs, But I was thinking about getting in to the Indie game market

Mr. X

Don’t give up because one dev has had a hard time. Find like minded people and go for it. You fail every risk you don’t take or whatever the saying is.

The amount of work you would have to put into making a fighting game is no easy task. There’s a reason why there’s only a handful of decent indie fighting games.

ShawnOtakuSomething

yeah and only with a team of 5 people.

Barrylocke89

It seems like a smart idea to me. By having the fans vote on the character that potentially gets in, it helps to ensure that they get the most bang for their buck, especially since they seem to be working on a limited budget. And if fans continue to show more support, or if the DLC is a success when it goes Pay-to-play and they make some money back, perhaps more character options will open up.

Suriel Cruz

Interesting… still, they can’t finish ONE, why the hopes up for others & that is thinking about those in shadow… some looks really GOOD!

Personally I’d prefer Marie or Mrs. Victoria to come out before Big Band. SkullGIRLS is one of the few games I own that has a completely female roster, which I take pride in.

CirnoLakes

I’m personally looking forward to playing as Umbrella in a team with Peacock.

HEY, STOP LOOKING AT ME THAT WAY.

Christopher Nunes

I think Bloody Marie should get in first before Big Band, seeing as I want to see more on her backstory and history in her own Story Mode (makes me wonder who her final boss would be? Double?).

Anyway I’m looking forward to these guys!

Oh by the way… I think they let it slip, but the character on the bottom right at the end that’s hulky and huge. They listed that silhouette as “Samson”… so that’s what Samson’s original form looked like? How the heck did something that huge attached itself to Filia’s head?

JustThisOne

Probably Nancy, the last Skullgirl/Parasoul’s mommy. Samson, hm? Good catch!

That just leaves a couple of people in the forth row that I’m missing then.. hmm…

Christopher Nunes

That’s a good theory… hmmm, I wonder which of these shadows COULD be Nancy. Would be interesting if they included her at one point in the game series, even if said character is no longer alive in the story (then again Squigly is an undead so who knows).

Yup, Samson, and the two to the left of him are those two girls from the final game’s ending (I think from Double’s or completing all of the main characters stories).

I would love to see ALL of them in the Skullgirls games.

Too bad there isn’t a contest where users can submit their own character to see if Lab Zero games could add them into the game as a “bonus” character. Then again, the winner would be lucky to get picked.

JustThisOne

None of em are Nancy, I think. :3 Silouhette doesn’t fit. I tried to list all the ones I could recognize down below.

As for the bonus character thing, if you go to the page and look at their rewards, you’ll notice that donating 1000 bucks lets you submit an npc to a stage. So… I guess that’s the closest you’ll get, haha. :’)

Christopher Nunes

Unfortunately I don’t have $1000 AND it was already sold out on that option so… yeah, out of luck. :/

Eh, what can you do?

Lazulis

I like Marie a lot. Those huge figures make me hope it works out well for them. At least Squiggly!

CirnoLakes

You like Marie.

I like you.

Christopher Nunes

Holy smokes… they’re at $122,743 already! I think in a few more hours they’ll hit their mark! I know I donated $30 dollars, but boy howdy! That’s quick! o_0

EDIT: They hit the $126k rate already! Just a little bit more now!

raymk

I want ms victoria so where do I throw my dough?

CirnoLakes

Update. There’s an Annie character. I like her.

I have now decided I have 4 favourite Skullgirls characters now. Those are Peacock, Marie, Umbrella, and Annie.

If one of these make it high in the polls I’ll have a reason to donate.

Asura

At this rate they will reach their goal in less than 24 hours. Which would be INCREDIBLE.

Mnstrzero00

Spread across three games! I’m a huge Skullgirls fan but they need to finish the original game first.